Downward particle fluxes at the oligotrophic and mesotrophic site of the EUMELI program

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A two year record of downward particle flux was obtained with moored sediment traps at several depths of the water column in two regions characterized by different primary production levels (mesotrophic and oligotrophic) of the eastern subtropical North Atlantic Ocean in the framework of the EUMELI program. Settling particles were collected with multisample conical sediment-traps moored at 1000 and 2500 depths in the water column. Time-series samples were obtained between February 1991 and November 1992. During this time, sampling intervals varied from 8 to 10 d and were synchronized at all depths and also between the oligotrophic and mesotrophic moorings. Sediment-trap sampling procedures were consistent with JGOF and described elsewhere. The data shown here are mass, particulate organic carbon (POC), particulate inorganic carbon (PIC), coccolithophore, opal, and lithogenic downward fluxes obtained during the entire sediment-trap deployments at both sites.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.793296
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0637(01)00010-3
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.793296
Provenance
Creator Bory, Aloys J-M ORCID logo; Jeandel, Catherine; Leblond, Nathalie; Vangriesheim, Annick; Khripounoff, Alexis ORCID logo; Beaufort, Luc ORCID logo; Rabouille, Christophe (ORCID: 0000-0003-1211-717X); Nicolas, E; Tachikawa, Kazuyo ORCID logo; Etcheber, Henri; Buat-Menard, P
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2012
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 1956 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-31.000W, 18.500S, -21.000E, 21.000N); Cape Verde Terrace; Cape Verde Abyssal Plateau
Temporal Coverage Begin 1991-01-14T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1992-11-24T00:00:00Z